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Games Quotes by Jose Raul Capablanca
- You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before…
- In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves,…
- The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
- The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
- An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of…
- When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as…
- Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by…
- The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be…
- An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.
- Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
- I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
- In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.
- Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to…
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